I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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The Ballot itself was carefully constructed to maximize support for the League, and minimize areas of disagreement.
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The teacher can often save lengthy explanation by carefully constructing a diagram or chart which encapsulates the main points of a lesson.
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They were constructed carefully , sometimes as exact circles, sometimes as partial ellipses.
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But if the School Development Plan has been carefully constructed , it should make the process easier.
socially
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This, it can be argued, is socially constructed and varies over time.
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Clearly many issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, prostitution, and even poverty are socially constructed problems.
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He argues, in short, that actual forms of kinship are socially constructed .
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It is a deliberate artifact of culture, and is socially constructed in myriad ways.
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Can we see gender being socially constructed along with the technology?
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One involving, for example, relationships between classes or between men and women as they are socially constructed ?
■ NOUN
building
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Various Volunteers spent periods of from three to twelve months doing unskilled pick and shovel work, constructing school buildings .
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Significantly, more recent housing in the same development has been constructed without either high-rise building or segregated traffic arrangements.
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Behaviour is just as amenable to a planning process as, say, constructing a building .
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A suitable developer was found to construct the new building .
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The total man-hours required to construct such a building is impossible to estimate.
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We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March.
concept
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Pupils are required to construct simple concept maps.
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According to Piaget, each child must construct the concept out of his or her active interactions with others.
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The meaning of a word is the constructed concept we attach to it.
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The problem is that young children typically have not yet constructed concepts of intentionality.
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Both correct answers and correct reasoning are necessary to conclude that the child has fully constructed the concept .
house
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Aunt Margaret helped Victoria construct a high house from a greasy set of playing cards on the kitchen floor.
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It enables the builder to construct low-cost houses and yesterday the Mayor, Coun Eddie Bolland, performed the topping out ceremony.
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She won a prize for the best self-constructed house in the city and started a construction firm.
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She would manage very well: the world was constructed in order to house people like her.
knowledge
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As with other knowledge , children construct moral knowledge and reasoning out of their actions in the environment.
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Through actions like these, children discover and construct their knowledge of sand.
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It is therefore reasonable to expect children who live in the same or a similar environment to construct similar physical knowledge .
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The greatest variability in constructed knowledge among people is probably found in their social knowledge.
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Children construct social knowledge from and within the sociocultural communities they live in and experience.
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Unlike most deconstructionist critics today, Goethe went beyond the assertion that modern science consists largely of constructed knowledge .
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The child can be seen as constructing knowledge at a primitive level, trying to make sense of the surrounding world.
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On the other hand, as we have seen, differences between cultures in constructed logical-mathematical knowledge are minor in comparison.
model
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A quite different method of evaluation is to construct a process model which seeks to relate input to output.
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Throughout, the emphasis is on constructing multiple alternative models , which can be explored and tested against each other.
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Copying also includes the use of one image to make another, like constructing a model from some one else's drawing.
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They constructed a circular model , where both parties in a conversation are shown as having virtually the same functions.
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The researcher has constructed computer models which predict tax and benefit entitlement under the present system, and after any possible reforms.
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However, a problem arose when one tried to use such theories to construct a model of the atom.
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Rawls constructs his model soas to argue for the primacy of an equality of needs.
road
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The wheels were made of wood and constructed in the Road Vehicle Shop.
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The federal government obligingly constructed logging roads into the wildernesses at public expense to accommodate the trucks and men and machinery.
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Others would move on to wherever their skills were required to construct railways, roads or canals.
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He also constructed the road along the S side of the Upper Llugwy Valley and the one along this valley.
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It constructs roads , flattens hills, digs canals, builds harbours, employs workers, contracts for services.
system
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Detailed evaluations can be carried out on this mock-up before the real system is constructed .
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His two-program package constructs the systems from training examples.
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The government needs advice on constructing a tax system for a decentralised economy.
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They have demonstrated that it is possible to construct systems of clinical budgeting in acute hospitals.
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These devices illustrate the potential for an easily constructed microchip system with a carbon paste detector that exhibits adjustable selectivity.
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A forum, quays, harbours, villas, baths and theatres were constructed also a system of water conservation and control.
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System generation is for performing pilot tests, establishing a development and test environments and constructing new systems.
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In the meantime, Beckenham U.D.C. did apply for powers to construct a tramway system .
theory
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In order to construct an integrated theory of linguistic competence, it is essential to discover the logical ordering of components or levels.
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I will construct a theory of self that posits the following: 1.
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From 1915 Laski had worked to construct a theory of the state appropriate to modern times.
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Hayek, however, constructs his theory in such a manner as to render such criticisms difficult to sustain.
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Is he able to construct a coherent theory ?
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We have even constructed elaborate theories to make us feel better about the lives older people lead.
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This implied that it was possible to construct a rational theory based on these objective laws.
wall
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The latter had two locations which were equidistant from the two furnaces which were constructed on that wall to the north.
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This allowed disaster relief experts to construct a new stone wall to reinforce the dam.
■ VERB
begin
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According to Imperial records the horde gathered at the coast and began to construct a huge fleet.
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With these he could begin to construct the illustrated history of his subject, starting with a false name.
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Sabat and Harré have recognized these problems and begun to construct a meaningful way of generating answers.
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Children begin to construct knowledge about rules and justice, although typically they have not yet developed fully a concept of intentionality.
design
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There are many ways of designing and constructing basements.
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He also explained that to be successful it would have to be carefully designed and properly constructed .
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Eventually a crawler was designed and constructed by the Marion Power Shovel Company.
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Louis, Mo.-based firm Hubble and Co., which designed and constructed the building.
help
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Aunt Margaret helped Victoria construct a high house from a greasy set of playing cards on the kitchen floor.
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Among other things, this will help the analysts to construct an interview plan.
use
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In recent years, the outage has been used to construct or commission major capital projects to extend the plants' capability.
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Some aphasics can repeat back a sentence containing words they find hard to use when constructing a sentence themselves.
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The drawing technique of shared radii can be used to construct a variety of curvilinear shapes.
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A geometry class was using computers to construct isosceles triangles and prove that two of their angles were equal.
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Tamayo's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art.
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The materials used to construct biosensors, and their covering layers, are important in determining the practical success of the biosensor.
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Hobson's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own, quite distinct, theory of imperialism.
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This we have used to construct and maintain a database of management job evaluation results.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Construct a square with 2-inch-long sides.
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Developers want to construct a replica of the 19th century steam yacht.
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It is easy to construct a wooden framework for plants to grow against.
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New freeway ramps are being constructed in San Bruno.
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The city council has plans for constructing two new schools and a hospital.
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The city has announced a plan to construct another runway at LaGuardia Airport.
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The roof frames were constructed from thick, heavy timbers.
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This elegant two-storey stone building was constructed in 1889.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it has endured because it was constructed of brick and volcanic rock between 1783 and 1792.
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Economic models will be constructed to explain the differing unemployment experience of different individuals in each of these markets.
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He argues, in short, that actual forms of kinship are socially constructed.
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In addition, it is necessary to follow how the calendar itself was constructed.
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Incongruities prohibit constructing a unified picture of anything we could call Orphism.
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There they construct a small royal cell.
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Through actions like these, children discover and construct their knowledge of sand.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
artificial
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Types, assemblages, and cultures are all artificial constructs designed to put order into disordered evidence.
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In short, he concluded without reservation that the canals were artificial constructs of technologically advanced alien beings.
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When they become smarter, of course, artificial life constructs will have to go out to work.
human
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Gandhi describes religions as human constructs or expressions of that which underlies them and gives them reality.
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It was all right, maybe, for Stephen Hawking to airily dismiss time as a human construct .
mental
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A mental construct arising from a misapprehension of the relationship between the crofter and his land.
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It is important to see that the physical world is a mental , theoretical construct .
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This is perfectly understandable if in fact after passives the to infinitive evokes a mental construct .
social
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In other words, it is a social construct .
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Within social geography these constructs have been used to examine landscape identity.
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It is not fully clear what are the elements on which these social constructs of sexuality play.
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An objective criterion is a typically social construct and presupposes a degree of inter-subjective understanding and cooperation.
theoretical
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Such models comprise theoretical constructs of variables which are interrelated, and significant in influencing the outcome of a purchase motivation.
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It is important to see that the physical world is a mental, theoretical construct .
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To say that the physical world is a theoretical construct is not to say that it does not really exist.
■ VERB
use
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Psychologists use personal construct theory to get people to determine their own values and beliefs.
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Whichever approach they use , they learn that using a construct always involves making choices.
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Each view of the world can be described using personal constructs which can be elicited by the use of a Repertory Grid.
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The resulting quantum logic was initiated by the mathematicians John von Neumann and Garret Birkhoff, using mathematical constructs called lattices.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is these social constructs that determine our relations to each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The list of constructs can be endless.
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The predominance these spatial constructs have for the ordinary constable is essential to an understanding of the police mind.
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The work construct outlined accepts much of the feminist argument.
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This is to be achieved through the construction of ideal-types and second-order constructs.
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Where there are no constructs, no adequate perception or understanding can be achieved.